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7. Internet Data Handling 
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This chapter describes modules which support handling data formats
commonly used on the Internet.

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      <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.html'>email</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Package supporting the parsing, manipulating, and
    generating email messages, including MIME documents.</td></tr>
  <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.message.html'>email.message</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>The base class representing email messages.</td></tr>
  <tr class='oddrow'>
      <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.parser.html'>email.parser</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Parse flat text email messages to produce a message
	        object structure.</td></tr>
  <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.generator.html'>email.generator</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Generate flat text email messages from a message structure.</td></tr>
  <tr class='oddrow'>
      <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.mime.html'>email.mime</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'></td></tr>
  <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.mime.base.html'>email.mime.base</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'></td></tr>
  <tr class='oddrow'>
      <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.mime.nonmultipart.html'>email.mime.nonmultipart</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'></td></tr>
  <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.mime.multipart.html'>email.mime.multipart</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'></td></tr>
  <tr class='oddrow'>
      <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.mime.audio.html'>email.mime.audio</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'></td></tr>
  <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.mime.image.html'>email.mime.image</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'></td></tr>
  <tr class='oddrow'>
      <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.mime.message.html'>email.mime.message</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'></td></tr>
  <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.mime.text.html'>email.mime.text</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'></td></tr>
  <tr class='oddrow'>
      <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.header.html'>email.header</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Representing non-ASCII headers</td></tr>
  <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.charset.html'>email.charset</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Character Sets</td></tr>
  <tr class='oddrow'>
      <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.encoders.html'>email.encoders</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Encoders for email message payloads.</td></tr>
  <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.errors.html'>email.errors</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>The exception classes used by the email package.</td></tr>
  <tr class='oddrow'>
      <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.utils.html'>email.utils</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Miscellaneous email package utilities.</td></tr>
  <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-email.iterators.html'>email.iterators</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Iterate over a  message object tree.</td></tr>
  <tr class='oddrow'>
      <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-mailcap.html'>mailcap</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Mailcap file handling.</td></tr>
  <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-mailbox.html'>mailbox</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Manipulate mailboxes in various formats</td></tr>
  <tr class='oddrow'>
      <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-mhlib.html'>mhlib</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Manipulate MH mailboxes from Python.</td></tr>
  <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-mimetools.html'>mimetools</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Tools for parsing MIME-style message bodies.</td></tr>
  <tr class='oddrow'>
      <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-mimetypes.html'>mimetypes</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Mapping of filename extensions to MIME types.</td></tr>
  <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-MimeWriter.html'>MimeWriter</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Generic MIME file writer.</td></tr>
  <tr class='oddrow'>
      <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-mimify.html'>mimify</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Mimification and unmimification of mail messages.</td></tr>
  <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-multifile.html'>multifile</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Support for reading files which contain distinct
                parts, such as some MIME data.</td></tr>
  <tr class='oddrow'>
      <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-rfc822.html'>rfc822</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Parse <a class="rfc" id='rfcref-99702' xml:id='rfcref-99702'
href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html">RFC 2822</a> style mail messages.</td></tr>
  <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-base64.html'>base64</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings</td></tr>
  <tr class='oddrow'>
      <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-binhex.html'>binhex</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Encode and decode files in binhex4 format.</td></tr>
  <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-binascii.html'>binascii</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Tools for converting between binary and various
                ASCII-encoded binary representations.</td></tr>
  <tr class='oddrow'>
      <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-quopri.html'>quopri</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Encode and decode files using the MIME
                quoted-printable encoding.</td></tr>
  <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-uu.html'>uu</a></tt></b></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td class='synopsis'>Encode and decode files in uuencode format.</td></tr>
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